Word: robotron
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...economic union with West Germany, which takes effect July 1, has made East Germany (pop. 16.6 million) particularly attractive to Western companies. The investors include Pilz, a West German audio firm that is building a compact- disc plant as part of a $140 million venture with East Germany's Robotron. The factory will have the capacity to press 24 million CDs a year when it opens...
This problem is past the fad stage and is on its way into the heart of American culture. Pac Man. Asteriods, Robotron. Bzeeeep-Bleeeep-Kzing! Etc. At Harvard, the games dominate entire social cliques. People do psych papers on them and plan class schedules around prime-time hours at their favorite areade. Play it safe and give all your quarters to the wheelchair basketball man who parks across from Out of Town News...
...prison officials had themselves chosen to push us into alarm stage three--no food or water, which meant death under ten days unless they stuck some kind of tubes in us. But even if they put us on some crazy kind of nourishing machine, which we fondly dubbed the Robotron in our plans for counter-attack, we decided to stay on the tubes until our sentences ran out and we were carried across the border like dehydrated prunes. If one of us got back to the West first, we agreed that he would tell the East Secret Police the code...
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